Underground Book Reviews

3 Stars – Review of WATER by Emory Gale

by Katie Rose Guest Pryal

There aren’t a lot of mer-stories out there, so in many ways WATER felt fresh. If your love of YA fantasy novels allows you to overlook typos and some contrived plot devices, you will enjoy WATER.

Blue Crow Publishing: A Small Press with Big Plans

by Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Blue Crow Publishing, LLC, was founded by Katie Rose Guest Pryal and Lauren Faulkenberry in Chapel Hill, NC. BCP released their first titles this month, and will release three more this fall. In 2018, they plan to publish 5-6 books in the spring and fall, both fiction and nonfiction. How does a small press get started? Lauren and Katie, contributors to Underground Book Reviews, tell us the Blue Crow story

SHELFIES: J.F.R. Coates of Jaffa Books

by Bill Kieffer

Jaffa Books is an independent publisher/retailer of fiction based in Brisbane, Australia. They have a lot of genres, but I know them mainly as a Furry publisher. But that might be because J.F.R Coates and I both belong to the Furry Writer’s Guild. Plus, Jaffa Books will be publishing Bill Kieffer’s collection of furry noir crime stories in the next few months: Cold Blood: Fatal Fables.

Author Spotlight: Brandon Davis Jennings

Here at the Underground, our goal is to promote as many quality indie authors as we can. Toward this end, we’re continuing Author Spotlights. If you are an author and like what you see, go to our submission page for a chance to be featured on Underground Book Reviews! Please welcome Brandon Davis Jennings!

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